Hans Lindahl

Professor

Room D 118
P.O. Box 90153
NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands

Phone +31 13 466 3062
Fax +31 13 466 2892
E-mail: H.K.Lindahl@tilburguniversity.edu

Expertise
Keywords
Publications
News and Events
Curriculum Vitae
Current Research Projects
Teaching
External Recognition
Other activities

Expertise

My research and teaching focus on legal and political philosophy, with a special emphasis on issues pertaining to political representation, sovereignty and (collective) identity, in particular in the context of the EU legal order. A sub-theme within this general line of research is the structuring of politico-legal space and time from the first-person plural perspective of a 'we'. In dealing with these issues I draw on both phenomenology and analytical philosophy.

Keywords

Collective Action and Identity
(Cosmopolitan) Justice
European Union
Immigration
Political Representation
Space
Time

Publications

Key Publications

Fault Lines of Globalisation: Legal Order and the Politics of A-Legality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2013).
"A-legality: Postnationalism and the Question of Legal Boundaries", in The Modern Law Review 73 (2010)1, pp. 30-56. Republished in R. Tinnevelt and H. De Schutter (eds.), Global Democracy and Exclusion (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010).
"In Between: Immigration, Distributive Justice, and Political Dialogue", in Contemporary Political Theory 8 (2009) 4, 415-434.
Hans Lindahl (ed.), A Right to Inclusion and Exclusion? Normative Faultlines of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (Oxford: Hart Publishers, 2009)
"Collective Self-Legislation as an Actus Impurus: A Response to Heidegger's Critique of European Nihilism", Continental Philosophy Review 41 (2008) 3, 323-343.
"Border Crossings by Immigrants: Legality, Illegality and Alegality," in Res Publica 14 (2008) 2: 117-135.
"Constituent Power and Reflexive Identity: Towards an Ontology of Collective Selfhood", in Martin Loughlin & Neil Walker (eds.), The Paradox of Constitutionalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 9-24.
"Give and Take: Arendt and the Nomos of Political Community", in Philosophy and Social Criticism Vol. 32 (2006) 7, 881-901.
"Dialectic and Revolution: Confronting Kelsen and Gadamer on Legal Interpretation", in Cardozo Law Review, 24 (2003) 2, pp. 769-798;
"Authority and Representation", in Law and Philosophy. An International Journal for Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy 19 (2000) 2, pp. 223-246.

Other Selected Publications

"Recognition as Domination: Constitutionalism, Reciprocity and the Problem of Singularity", forthcoming in Neil Walker, Stephen Tierney and Jo Shaw (eds.), Europe's Constitutional Mosaic (Oxford: Hart Publishers, 2010).
"Breaking Promises to Keep Them: Immigration and the Boundaries of Distributive Justice", in Hans Lindahl (ed.) A Right to Inclusion and Exclusion? (Oxford: Hart Publishers, 2009).
"Discretion and Public Policy: Timing the Unity and Divergence of Legal Orders," in Sacha Prechal and Bert van Roermund (eds.), The Coherence of EU Law: The Search for Unity in Divergent Concepts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp.291-313.
"The Paradox of Constituent Power: The Ambiguous Self-Constitution of the European Union", in Ratio Juris. An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 20 (2007) 4, 485-505;
"Jus includendi et excludendi: Europe and the Borders of Freedom, Security and Justice" in King's College Law Journal, Vol. 16 (2005), 1, pp.234-247;
"Finding a Place for Freedom, Security and Justice: The European Unity and its Claim to Territorial Unity", European Law Review 29 (2004), pp. 461-484;
"Sovereignty and Representation in the European Union", in Neil Walker (ed.), Sovereignty in Transition (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2003), pp. 87-114.
"Acquiring a Community: The Acquis and the Institution of European Legal Order", in European Law Journal 9 (2003) 4, pp. 433-450;
"Sovereignty and the Institutionalization of Normative Order" in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 21 (2001) 1, pp. 165-180;
"The Purposiveness of Law: Two Concepts of Representation in the European Union" in Law and Philosophy. An International Journal for Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy 17 (1998) 5-6, pp. 481-507;
"Democracy and the Symbolic Constitution of Society" in Ratio Juris. An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 11 (1998) 1, pp. 12-37.
"Sovereignty and Symbolization" in Rechtstheorie. Zeitschrift für Logik, Methodenlehre, Kybernetik und Soziologie des Rechts 28 (1997) 3, pp. 347-371.

News and events

An invitation has been extended to me by the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study to take up a Fellowship at the STIAS for a maximum period of 9 months, during 2010 or 2011.
I will be delivering my inaugural lecture, "A-legality: The Question of Legal Boundaries" on January 30th, 2009. For more information click here
I will be participating in a workshop on 'Constituent/Constituted: Dissensus and Collective Selfhood', organized by Birkbeck College, of the University of London, on Friday, February 27, 2009.
Paper presentation in the Vidi-workshop 'Cosmopolitanism in a world of interconnected threats and challenges: From a world of states to a world state?', organized by Ronald Tinnevelt of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on March 6, 2009.
I have reached an agreement with Hart Publishers for the publication in 2009 of a volume of essays, under my editorship, titled A Right to Inclusion and Exclusion? Normative Fault Lines of the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
"Heteronomous Autonomy: Rethinking the Monism-Pluralism Debate", paper to be presented in "Europe's Constitutional Mosaic Series," a seminar series organized by Neil Walker, Stephan Tierney and Jo Shaw, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, April 3d, 2009.
"Border Crossings by Immigrants: Legality, Illegality, Alegality", paper presented at the Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, University of Latvia, September 25-27, 2008.
"The 'Right to Have Rights': Borders and Thresholds of Distributive Justice," keynote lecture at "Dead/Lines: Contemporary Issues in Legal and Political Theory", Doctoral Colloquium at the School of Law of Edinburgh University, May 29-30, 2008.
"Law's 'Uncanniness': A Phenomenology of Legal Decisions", paper presented in "On normal and exceptional politics: an international conference with Bonnie Honig", April 18-19, 2008, Leusden, the Netherlands.
'Agonism: Legal Unity and Political Plurality': paper presentation in the workshop 'Law and Agonistic Politics', University of Exeter, September 17-19, 2007;
'In-Between: Immigration, Justice and a Phenomenology of the Political World': paper presentation in the Critical Legal Conference 2007, Birkbeck College, University of London, September 14-16, 2007;
Organization of the seminar 'Normative Foundations of European Immigration Policy,' Tilburg University on May 10th and 11th.

Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

Law degree with a minor in economics at the Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia), 1981;
M. Phil. in Philosophy, Universidad Javeriana, 1988;
Ph.D in Philosophy, Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Louvain (Leuven, Belgium), 1994.

Career

Lecturer in law at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (1987-1988);
Legal practitioner in Colombia (1982-1988);
Post-doc researcher in philosophy at Tilburg University (1994);
Assistant professor of philosophy at Tilburg University (1995-2001);
Associate professor of philosophy at Tilburg University (2001-2007);
Professor of philosophy at Tilburg University (2008 - ).

Current Research Projects

Normative Foundations of European Immigration Policy:
Binding Unity and Divergent Concepts in European Law;
Reflexive Identity and Political Indexicality.

Teaching

Introduction to Law, Faculty of Law, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (1986-1988)
Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University:
a) Constitutional democracy: the Schmitt-Kelsen debate (1995-2001
b) On political representation: "Parliament represents the whole Dutch people (Art. 50 of the Constitution)" (2001- ..)
"Derechos humanos en una perspectiva europea" (Human Rights in a European Perspective): a 4-week course on the European Convention of Human Rights for practitioners of the Legal Bar at Mar del Plata, Argentina, May 1996.
Theory of European Law, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University
Ethics for Lawyers, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University (1999- 2002).
"A Crisis of Political Representation?", Masters Course, Faculty of Philosophy, Tilburg University (2005- ..)
Winner of the Tilburg University Educational Innovation Prize 2005

External Recognition

Member of the Advisory Board of The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice;
Editor-in-Chief of Rechtsfilosofie en Rechtstheorie,theleading Dutch-Flemishjournal of legal philosophy;
Member of the Board of Directors of the Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy (NSRPP).

Other activities

Head of research of the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University (2007 - 2010).

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